Film and Discussion : "Magic Trip"

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This documentary features restored footage from more than 100 hours of film shot during author Ken Kesey’s fabled 1964 road trip across America with a renegade group of counterculture truth-seekers in the legendary Magic Bus. Along with Kesey, who wrote “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” the Merry Pranksters on the LSD-fueled road trip to the New York World’s Fair included Neal Cassady, the American icon immortalized in Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road,” and the painter and driver of the psychedelic Magic Bus. Given access to the raw footage and audiotape by the Kesey family, filmmakers Alex Gibney, who will appear at a post-screening discussion,  and Alison Ellwood completed the film Kesey intended to make and captured an extraordinary piece of American history.